FDA estimates that should cigarettes lose their nicotine, roughly half of current smokers would transition to other, safer products to get their fix, Brian King, the head of the FDAs tobacco center, told me
Studies show that menthol cigarettes increase initiation of smoking, decrease cessation, and make it harder for Black smokers to quit compared to non-Black smokers
It kills more people in this country each year than alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides or in the past two years Covid, points out Jon Berrick, an emeritus professor at Singapores Yale-NUS College, who now lives in Sydney
You cant just ban it overnight
The exact cutoff varies by community, but most commonly applies to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000